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sexless

sexless adjective: without sexual activity.

Adjective

sexless (not comparable)

  1. Without sexual activity.
    • They have a sexless marriage.
    • They’re sexually active and eager throughout the first nine seasons, so this isn’t like the show breathing life into a sexless sitcom couple from the 1950s.2016 January 24, Les Chappell, “TV: Review: The Simpsons (Classic), “Natural Born Kissers” (season nine, episode 25, originally aired 05/17/1998)”, in The Onion AV Club
  2. Without physical or behavioral sexual distinction.
  3. Provoking or showing no sexual desire.
    • A small child is sexless.
    • The more solicitous of the two was Nurse Cramer, a shapely, pretty, sexless girl with a wholesome unattractive face.1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 171
  4. Without sex appeal.

sexless meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Malayalam

sexless in Hindi

sexless, third gender
नपुंसक napunsak

sexless in Tamil

sexless
அலிங்கம் aliṅkam

sexless in Marathi

sexless, hermaphrodite
षंढ ṣaṇḍha

sexless in Malayalam

non-sexual, asexual, neuter
നിർല്ലിംഗ, ലിംഗഭേദമില്ലാത്ത, ആണും പെണ്ണും കെട്ട, പുല്ലിംഗമോ സ്ത്രീലിംഗമോ അല്ലാത്ത, നപുംസകലിംഗമായ, നപുംസകമായ

Synonyms of sexless

All synonyms of sexless

Origin of sexless

From sex + -less. Compare sexful.

Words formed from sexless

Questions about sexless

What does sexless mean?
Sexless means without sexual activity.
What is sexless in Hindi?
Sexless in Hindi is नपुंसक (napunsak). See Sexless meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is sexless?
Sexless is an adjective.

Words near sexless in the dictionary

  1. sexithiophenes
  2. sexitubercular
  3. sexivalence
  4. sexivalency
  5. sexivalent
  6. sexless
  7. sexlessly
  8. sexlessness
  9. sexlike
  10. sexlinked
  11. sexlocular

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sexless (page history and authors); नपुंसक (Hindi) (page history and authors); அலிங்கம் (Tamil) (page history and authors); षंढ (Marathi) (page history and authors); sexless (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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